File - Rapper Tupac Shakur arrives at New York's Radio City Music Hall, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1996. On September 7, 1996, 2Pac was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was taken to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, where he died six days later, on September 13, 1996. He was 25. (AP Photo/Todd Plitt)

Presenter Snoop Dogg speaks about 2017 Inductee Tupac Shakur onstage at the 32nd Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Center on April 7, 2017 in New York City. Shakur died on September 13, 1996. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

File - Oakland, CA January 7, 1992 - Rapper Tupac Shakur. On September 7, 1996, 2Pac was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was taken to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, where he died six days later, on September 13, 1996. He was 25. (Gary Reyes / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)

A hologram of rapper Tupac Shakur performing onstage at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on April 15, 2012 in Indio, California. Shakur died on September 13, 1996. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Coachella)

A black BMW, riddled with bullet holes, is seen in a Las Vegas police impound lot in a file photo from Sunday, Sept. 8, 1996. Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot while riding in the car driven by Death Row Records chairman Marion "Suge" Knight on Sept. 7, 1996, and died a week later. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)

The intersection of Harmon and Las Vegas Blvd., in Las Vegas, Sunday, Sept. 8, 1996, where rap superstar Tupac Shakur and Death Row Records Chairman Marion "Suge" Knight were stopped and transported to the University Medical Center-Trauma unit after being shot. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

Alicia Keys performs a tribute to inductee Tupac Shakur at the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Barclays Center on Friday, April 7, 2017, in New York. Shakur died on September 13, 1996. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

A wall dedicated to the memory of US rapper Tupac Shakur is seen on May 26, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images)

File - Rappers, right to left, Tupac Shakur, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Hammer, joined the black-activists group Brotherhood Crusade Thursday, Aug. 15, 1996, in Los Angeles to kick off a campaign against the "three-strikes" law and to oppose the California Civil Rights Initiative, the anti-affirmative action measure. (AP Photo/Frank Wiese)

File - The rock group KISS and rapper Tupac Shakur, center, take the stage to present the award for Best Pop Duo or Group at the 38th annual Grammy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, in this Feb. 28, 1996, file photo. Shakur died on Sept. 13, 1996, the victim of a drive-by shooting. (AP Photo/Eric Draper/FILE)

Rap star Tupac Shakur arrives at Manhattan Supreme Court in New York on Dec. 1, 1994. He was injured in a shooting. (AP Photo/Eric Miller)

Rapper Tupac Shakur holds a notebook as he waits in line to pass through the metal detectors at New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Nov. 14, 1994. (AP Photo/Robert Kalfus)

Rap star Tupac Shakur spits in the direction of reporters as he leaves state Supreme Court in New York July 5, 1994. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Rapper Tupac Shakur gestures as he leaves State Supreme Court in New York, July 11, 1994 after a pretrial hearing on charges of sodomy and sexual abuse stemming from an incident in a New York hotel room earlier this year. (AP Photo/Adam Nadel)

Rap star Tupac Shakur is led from the Manhattan North police precinct after being arrested in an alleged sexual attack on Nov. 19, 1993. (AP Photo/Justin Sutcliffe)

File - Rapper Tupac Shakur is shown in this Dec. 16, 1993 file photo. Shakur's mother is seeking to prevent his former label, Death Row Records Inc., from selling the late rapper's unreleased recordings as part of a bankruptcy settlement. (AP Photo/Kevin Larkin)

A hologram of rapper Tupac Shakur performing onstage at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on April 15, 2012 in Indio, California. Shakur died on September 13, 1996. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)

Rapper Snoop Dogg (L) and a hologram of deceased rapper Tupac Shakur perform onstage during day 3 of the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Field on April 15, 2012 in Indio, California. Shakur died on September 13, 1996. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Coachella)

A hologram of rapper Tupac Shakur performing onstage at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on April 15, 2012 in Indio, California. Shakur died on September 13, 1996. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)

A wall dedicated to the memory of US rapper Tupac Shakur is seen on May 26, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images)

Treach, from left, T.I., YG and Snoop Dogg perform a tribute to inductee Tupac Shakur at the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Barclays Center on Friday, April 7, 2017, in New York. Shakur died on September 13, 1996. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Presenter Snoop Dogg speaks onstage at the 32nd Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Center on April 7, 2017 in New York City. Shakur died on September 13, 1996. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

PHOTOS: Remembering rap legend Tupac Shakur on 21st anniversary of his death

On September 7, 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada. Shakur was taken to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, where he died six days later, on September 13, 1996. He was 25. Known as 2Pac, he was one of the most successful - and scorned - "gangsta" rappers.

When Shakur starred in the rap film 'Poetic Justice' with Janet Jackson in 1993, it was confirmation of his star status. He had just finished making another film - 'Gang Related' - when he was gunned down. Shakur was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame on April 7, 2017.